Reagan, Carter confer
WMomiNU I UN (Ar; — Hon
ald Reagan and Jimmy Carter,
rivals no more, sat down
together in the Oval Office on
Thursday for their first private
meeting since the long pres
idential campaign ended in
Reagan’s landslide victory.
When the meeting broke up
after nearly 1 Vi hours, the
president-elect praised Carter
for cooperating in the transition
to the Reagan administration.
“He has made it much easier
than it otherwise would have
been," Reagan said as the two
men posed for photographs in
front of the marble fireplace in
the Oval Office.
“We have a very good work
ing relationship personally,”
Carter said. He said he and
Reagan discussed the transition
and “some of the issues I have
faced as president.”
Carter emphasized that he
and Reagan are in agreement
that the outgoing chief execu
tive will be president “in the
fullest sense of the word” until
Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
The meeting ran far longer
than the 30 minutes originally
scheduled, and Carter said the
two leaders emphasized “some
of the common commitments
we share.”
A short time after the meeting,
Carter left the White House for a
visit to Camp David, Md.
Although the White House
meeting had been planned for
several days, the two men and
their wives actually encoun
tered each other in a less-than
planned fashion.
The Reagans arrived at the
sun-bathed South Portico of the
White House one minute early,
at 1:59 p.m. EST, and the
president and his wife, Ro
salynn, rushed out of the Di
plomatic Entrance there to
greet them.
The president and the pres
ident-elect grinned broadly,
each looked at his watch, and
Reagan acknowledged that he
was “a little bit early.”
"We’re very glad to have you
here," Carter told his successor
and the incoming first lady,
Nancy Reagan. “I think you’ll
like the place.”
Carter then escorted Reagan
to the Oval Office — as much a
symbol of presidential power as
it is a workspace — and Mrs.
Carter took Mrs. Reagan on a
White House tour.
The Reagans arrival by
motorcade from their govern
ment-owned residence one-half
block from the White House was
heralded by the wail of sirens
from police escort motorcycles
driven by the same corps that
has ushered Carter around
Washington for four years.
In addition to more than 100
reporters, photographers and
technicians who witnessed the
arrival, there were numbers of
White House staff members,
some with cameras, awaiting
the new first family.
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PEKING (AP) — Chairman
Mao Tse-tung’s widow, the
once-powerful leader of the
radical "Gang Of Four,” walked
calmly into court Thursday and
with nine other defendants
heard charges they persecuted
nearly 35,000 people to death
and brought “untold disasters”
to China. Her composure de
serted her during the reading of
the charges and she broke into
tears, Chinese reporters said.
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880 invited observers in a
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television, with promises of
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days ahead. Foreign reporters
were barred on grounds state
secrets would be discussed.
It was the first public look at
the defendants since their im
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The bespectacled widow
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